Hugh Doherty
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
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The challenger power is going to be is going to get into conflict with the bigger power and it's going to win.
Right.
And it's not hard to see who who who he is positioning himself as here.
Now it's pretty insulting.
If you go to somebody else's house and say, Oh, pfft, you know, I know I've got, you know, I know that I I know that technically you're better off than me, but tell you what, we're going to
a fight and I'm going to win.
It's not great.
It's fighting talk.
It this is wrapped in the language of diplomacy.
It's also wrapped in language that
We have no idea if Trump actually knows what the Thucydides Prime is.
Is.
Right.
And this, you know, this this idea um comes comes to us from ancient Greece, from Athens and Sparta, and Sparta was a rising power.
But also it's something that the American military uh at the higher levels are taught.
It's it was a concept that was popularized uh from the early 1980s onwards in reference to the Cold War um by a thinker called Graham Allison.
And if you go to the war college,
If you go to West Point, if you go to do higher officer command, if you go to any everyone of the general corps that was lectured by Pete Heggs, they have all been taught, they all learn about and think about the Thucydides trap.
So she mentioning it to Trump, first of all, kind of insulting, he's mentioned it twice.
Mm-hmm.
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